When Esau<n id="1" /> looked up<n id="2" /> and saw the women and the children, he asked, &#8220;Who are these people with you?&#8221; Jacob<n id="3" /> replied, &#8220;The children whom God has graciously given<n id="4" /> your servant.&#8221;

When he told his father and his brothers, his father rebuked him, saying, &#8220;What is this dream that you had?<n id="1" /> Will I, your mother, and your brothers really come and bow down to you?&#8221;<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Now, as for your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, they will be mine.<n id="1" /> Ephraim and Manasseh will be mine just as Reuben and Simeon are.

He replied,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Surely I will be with you,<n id="2" /> and this will be the sign<n id="3" /> to you that I have sent you: When you bring the people out of Egypt, you and they will serve<n id="4" /> God on this mountain.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Go and bring together<n id="1" /> the elders of Israel and tell them, &#8216;The <sc>Lordsc>, the God of your fathers,<n id="2" /> appeared<n id="3" /> to me &#8211; the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob &#8211; saying, &#8220;I have attended carefully<n id="4" /> to you and to what has been done<n id="5" /> to you in Egypt,

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">So Moses went back<n id="2" /> to his father-in-law Jethro and said to him, &#8220;Let me go, so that I may return<n id="3" /> to my relatives<n id="4" /> in Egypt and see<n id="5" /> if they are still alive.&#8221; Jethro said to Moses, &#8220;Go in peace.&#8221;

So now, send instructions<n id="1" /> to gather<n id="2" /> your livestock and all your possessions in the fields to a safe place. Every person<n id="3" /> or animal caught<n id="4" /> in the field and not brought into the house &#8211; the hail will come down on them, and they will die!&#8221;&#8217;&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">When<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> brings you to the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey,<n id="2" /> then you will keep<n id="3" /> this ceremony<n id="4" /> in this month.

<n id="1" /> It<n id="2" /> will be a sign<n id="3" /> for you on your hand and a memorial<n id="4" /> on your forehead,<n id="5" /> so that the law of the <sc>Lordsc> may be<n id="6" /> in your mouth,<n id="7" /> for<n id="8" /> with a mighty hand the <sc>Lordsc> brought you out of Egypt.

The <sc>Lordsc> said to him, &#8220;Go, get down, and come up, and Aaron with you, but do not let the priests and the people force their way through to come up to the <sc>Lordsc>, lest he break through against them.&#8221;

<n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> said to Moses, &#8220;Come up to me to the mountain and remain there, and I will give you the stone tablets<n id="2" /> with<n id="3" /> the law and the commandments that I have written, so that you may teach them.&#8221;<n id="4" />

I will meet with you there,<n id="1" /> and<n id="2" /> from above the atonement lid, from between the two cherubim that are over the ark of the testimony, I will speak with you about all that I will command you for the Israelites.p>

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> said to Moses, &#8220;Go up<n id="1" /> from here, you and the people whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land I promised on oath<n id="2" /> to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, &#8216;I will give it to your descendants.&#8217;<n id="3" />

For<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> had said to Moses, &#8220;Tell the Israelites, &#8216;You are a stiff-necked people. If I went up among you for a moment,<n id="2" /> I might destroy you. Now take off your ornaments,<n id="3" /> that I may know<n id="4" /> what I should do to you.&#8217;&#8221;<n id="5" />

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> said to Moses, &#8220;Cut out<n id="2" /> two tablets of stone like the first, and I will write<n id="3" /> on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you smashed.

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> said to Moses, &#8220;Write down<n id="1" /> these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.&#8221;

The thigh of the contribution offering and the breast of the wave offering they must bring in addition to the gifts of the fat parts to wave them as a wave offering before the <sc>Lordsc>, and it will belong to you and your sons with you for a perpetual statute just as the <sc>Lordsc> has commanded.&#8221;p>

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">Moses said to Hobab son of Reuel, the Midianite, Moses&#8217; father-in-law,<n id="2" /> &#8220;We are journeying to the place about which the <sc>Lordsc> said, &#8216;I will give it to you.&#8217; Come with us and we will treat you well,<n id="3" /> for the <sc>Lordsc> has promised good things<n id="4" /> for Israel.&#8221;

&#8220;Send out men to investigate<n id="1" /> the land of Canaan, which I am giving<n id="2" /> to the Israelites. You are to send one man from each ancestral tribe,<n id="3" /> each one a leader among them.&#8221;

The firstborn of every womb which they present to the <sc>Lordsc>, whether human or animal, will be yours. Nevertheless, the firstborn sons you must redeem,<n id="1" /> and the firstborn males of unclean animals you must redeem.